SpaceX added 24 new Starlink satellites to its orbital community on a Friday evening (July 18) launch from California.
The corporate’s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 8:52 p.m. native (11:52 p.m. EDT or 0352 GMT on July 19) from House Launch Complicated 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg House Drive Base. At about 9 minutes into the flight, the booster’s higher stage delivered the 2 dozen satellites to area.
The flight was on monitor to deploy the Starlink spacecraft into low Earth orbit an hour later.
The Falcon 9 first stage efficiently accomplished its 14th mission by touchdown on “Of Course I Nonetheless Love You,” an autonomous droneship stationed within the Pacific Ocean.
The launch was the was SpaceX’s 88th Falcon 9 launch of 2025 and 516th accomplished mission.
With Friday’s group (17-3), the Starlink community now includes over 7,965 active units out of the greater than 9,200 satellites launched since 2019. SpaceX’s service offers broadband web entry to areas the place different connectivity shouldn’t be out there, in addition to direct-to-cell capabilities for choose telephones and suppliers.
